Pessimistic views among French economist, political and scholar opinion givers have often prevailed about the assessment of French economic competitiveness ; that might be explained by negative surveys of the ability of economic elites to adapt themselves to the changes of the environment of...

Les start-up sont désormais entrées dans le jargon populaire. Le terme luimême est ambigu. En effet « start-up » signifie « démarrer », autrement dit, l’entité considérée est une création d’entreprise, mais dans la pratique, elle est essentiellement rattachée à une entreprise...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

On the basis of the recent concepts of epistemic communities and communities of practice, we show that the firm can be defined according to a form of double duality: cognitive and organisational. The interest of this approach is to put ahead the differentiated behavior from the manager and the...

We present, a relatively new and unpublished concept here : the " ba ". This one is advanced by two authors : I. Nonaka and N. Konno [1998]. They show that this concept - shape of place where take place interactions - is a foundation of creation of new knowledge in an organization. Our...

Les PME forment une catégorie d’entreprises synonymes des spécificités et de diversité. Après avoir adopté une méthodologie d’étude de ces entreprises, nous postulons que celles-ci peuvent utiliser des systèmes de gestion de la qualité de type ISO 9000 principalement comme guide....

Keywords Création de connaissance, Vision entrepreneuriale, ISO 9000, Management de la connaissance, PME

What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support the legitimacy of new products that undergo performance evaluation before purchase. Using historical and ethnographic data...